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Sion had inherited the Alexandrian Jewish knowledge of alchemy, which
was also flourishing in the Jewish communities of France and Spain.
The Knights Templar and Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion shared
the same Grand Master until 1188. In this year, the Orders separated to
allow the Order of Sion to focus on the restoration of the Merovingian
lineage in France. This separation occurred at Gisors as the Splitting of
the Elm. The Elm is the tree that supports the young vine. 1063
Some legends say the Rosicrucians originated with one of the
elm’s branches at Gisors, known as Ormus. The priory of St Samson
d’Orleans, so they say, protected the members in the priory of Mount Sion
at St Jean Le Blanc. The emblem of Ormus was a red cross in a white
rose. Since 1188 and to this day, a Supreme Master, called the
Nautonnier or Navigator, has led thirteen members in their worship of
Notre Dame.
The Knights Templar and Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion
effectively reunited at the marriage of Count René d’Anjou.
At least three Grand Masters of the Prieure du Notre Dame du
Sion were well-known practitioners and publishers of alchemy: Nicholas
Flamel (1398-1418), Robert Boyle (1654-1691) and Sir Isaac Newton
(1691-1727). Although these Grand Masters were familiar with Jewish
alchemy and Gnostic philosophy, they probably were not accomplished
adepts of practical alchemy. Isaac Newton seemed very frustrated.
Perhaps the Grand Masters suffered a similar vacuum of knowledge as the
Rabbis who supposedly lost the secret at the destruction of the Temple.
Nor were these Grand Masters of the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion
privy to the secret philosophy of the Sharon's Rose.
The Rite of Memphis always held that the real principles of
masonry were Chaldean. 1064 Their Rosicrucian ancestors had supposedly
preserved this knowledge in the Temple of the Rose Cross at
Damascus. 1065 The knowledge was preserved at an unknown convent of
the Maronites, on Mount Liban. This probably refers to either the
Assaasins and their Grand Master, the Old Man of the Mountain in a cave
of Mount Lebanon. 1066
A 1660 Rosicrucian poem to the Societie by Francis Thynne
honors the dedication of the Rosicrucians: 1067
The purple Rose which first Damasco bredd,
adorn'd with cullor grateful to the sight…
Soe two faire dowries which man doth enjoye –
true perfect love, and suer fidelite…
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